> To all devs that can, please verify if the networkless installation
> instructions (in draft/2005.1) are working flawlessly for the architecture
> you can test.

For the most part, they should be correct. I would ask for everyone to
hold off, since we just made some critical updates with the snapshot and
catalyst, as the -pre1 release for x86 (and any other arches) was broken
when it came to GRP packages. Performing a networkless install using
only stage3 + distfiles + portage snapshot should be fine, but using any
of the GRP packages is known broken. We are working on another
pre-release for x86 as we speak, and I believe that other arches are
doing the same.

> Please file a bugreport and assign it to me directly (with
> docs-team@g.o in the Cc-field) if you find hickups.
>
> Also, afaik, the current installation instructions (network-based) don't
> require much updates except in the -medium.xml files (for the new location)
> and example versions in the -kernel.xml files. If I am forgetting stuff,
> please give me a hurl.

Well, there will be a few changes, as we fixed some of the bugs with
2005.0 that required documentation changes, such as the distfiles for
coldplug being missing from the universal CD.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux